Picture: Cosmetic Box in Ancient Egypt

A reconstructed ebony and ivory veneered cosmetic box recovered from the 12th Dynasty burial of Sithathoriunet at Lahun. Included amongst the queen's treasures were a polished silver mirror, gold-handled copper razors, whetstones, a small silver dish and four obsidian cosmetics jars decorated in gold. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Picture: Cosmetic Box in Ancient Egypt

A reconstructed ebony and ivory veneered cosmetic box recovered from the 12th Dynasty burial of Sithathoriunet at Lahun. Included amongst the queen's treasures were a polished silver mirror, gold-handled copper razors, whetstones, a small silver dish and four obsidian cosmetics jars decorated in gold. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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What I love about this book is that it takes you directly from the minute ancient Egypt had its first Pharaoh till the very end of the Pharaonic system.

However, though it spots important female public figures in ancient Egypt like Hatshepsut and Cleopatra, it pretty much stops there. But this is understandable, because the book is basically about male Pharaohs.